
US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin does not have a soul. As Reuters reports, she stated this, speaking to the voters in the state of New Gampshire.
Clinton mentioned Putin, criticizing the manner of current President George Bush to build foreign policy based on personal relations with the leaders of other states. “The president looked into Putin’s soul,” Clinton reminded the famous statement of Bush. “I could tell him that Putin is an agent of the KGB. He has no soul by definition. This is a waste of time, right?”
In 2001, in Ljubljana, after a meeting with the Russian president, George Bush told reporters that he looked into the eyes of Vladimir Putin and "saw his soul." Critics of Bush immediately called this replica naive. Many in the United States criticize Bush due to the fact that he allegedly built relations with Pakistan leader Perevz Musharraf, and became his "hostage".
A few months ago, another candidate, Republican John McCain, also admitted that he looked into the eyes of the Russian president, but, unlike Bush, could not see anything except three letters - K, G, B. McCain, leading in polls among the Republicans in New Gampshire, calls Putin a “dangerous person” and urges Russia to exclude Russia from the “big eight”. In addition, he promises in case of victory in the presidential election as soon as possible to deploy elements of American PRO in Eastern Europe.
However, as the Air Force notes, Russia is not a significant factor in the American election campaign, and the applicants for the presidential post speak extremely rarely about it.
On Tuesday in New Hampshire, the Democratic Party will hold intra-party primaries. Clinton really needs a victory over another leading democrat, Barack Obama. At the cokusi (intra -party meeting) in Aiova last Friday, she took third place, losing not only to him, but also the Senator from North Carolina John Edwards.